Misfitmorgan's Journal - That Summer Dust

[CntryBoy777]

Okay, I understand. You sound alot like Joyce, when we met she was looking to Flee and I told her in no uncertain terms that I wasn't moving to Michigan. She said good, because she was Leaving. She was born in Gaylord and was in Mt Morris...a suburb of Flint. I really hope it all gets sorted out for ya and ya can move forward. I hate to be a "Fair Weather" friend, but if ya ever see me up there, it will be Summer...

 

[misfitmorgan]

Any ideas on what to do with 2500 bales of 1st cut grass hay?

 

[Baymule]

Any ideas on what to do with 2500 bales of 1st cut grass hay?

Post it on http://www.hayexchange.com/

 

[misfitmorgan]

Okay, I understand. You sound alot like Joyce, when we met she was looking to Flee and I told her in no uncertain terms that I wasn't moving to Michigan. She said good, because she was Leaving. She was born in Gaylord and was in Mt Morris...a suburb of Flint. I really hope it all gets sorted out for ya and ya can move forward. I hate to be a "Fair Weather" friend, but if ya ever see me up there, it will be Summer...

Haha i dont blame you i would be fair weather if i could too but winter just wont cooperate. I actually live 2 hrs southeast of gaylord..spent lots of time there though.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Post it on http://www.hayexchange.com/

Thanks a lot @Baymule found some people a couple hours away looking for monthly delivery in the few hundred bales range, shall see if we can make that work out. I'm also going to post an ad of my own of course.

 

[Bruce]

Hahaha I liked it when I went snowmobiling every weekend and wasn't farming.... Now I don't have time to go snowmobiling because I'm too busy lugging hot water to the animals 3x/day!

And lately there hasn't been enough snow for any activities outside of where there is snowmaking. I think we had enough snow this year for my wife to snowshoe around the property maybe a total of 2 weeks. The snowmobile trails we pass were down to dirt after only a day of sleds running on them.

 

[NH homesteader]

Same as last year! We went snowshoeing twice this year

 

[Baymule]

Thanks a lot @Baymule found some people a couple hours away looking for monthly delivery in the few hundred bales range, shall see if we can make that work out. I'm also going to post an ad of my own of course.

check out drought areas. In 2011, we were in a terrible drought and had to buy hay from other states-even through the summer. Prices were high.

 

[misfitmorgan]

check out drought areas. In 2011, we were in a terrible drought and had to buy hay from other states-even through the summer. Prices were high.

I didnt think anyone was in drought this past year. We have the hay priced at $3/bale and it still isnt selling. I checked the auction prices atm it is going for $1.50-3/bale, normally the hay market is good but it never got cold enough here for long enough to kill the grass until January so a lot of people havnt used much hay.

I checked prices in the usual areas flordia and texas ....lol They both look like $4-5/bale which wouldnt pay the trucking cost DH says unless we had a full load of 600 odd bales and then there is the problem of who to sell it to once it is there. I don't know how any of that works.

 

[NH homesteader]

We had a pretty bad drought last year. Hay prices are up, not sure how the supply is at this point because I bought from a friend. We usually pay around $5/bale ($3 if we get it in the field). One guy in my town was getting $6/bale in the field last year